All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSONThat old bald cheater, Time.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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